Eudora Larkin

Mrs. Eudora Larkin orders and thinks she owns the town and she is ‘classified’ as one of the better people of the town. Well, that was my first opinion of Mrs. Larkin. She can be bossy and mean with a hint of disgust, but when Arthur Devil, the mine owner, offends the late Eugene Larkin, people sure can change.

My first opinion of Eudora was too early and didn’t have much sense, but there are parts of Moon over Manifest that she can be barbaric. (220) ‘“ Velma,’ Mrs. Larkin interrupted, ‘surely you are not going to participate in this’- she struggled for the right word- ‘this… charade.” The charade she was unwilling to partake in was to help the town rise to the same level of the mine and she was so uncooperative to go along in it because she made a fool of herself at the Women’s Temperance League. Another encounter of her demeanor is on page 191. “Who knows how many people he’s hoodwinked into buying that snake oil. I insist that he be put under arrest.” Then on page 117, Pearl Anne gave us the insight that her mother, Eudora, doesn’t like people without the knowledge of their ancestors. Exactly like Ned. And when she practically told Jinx he wasn’t a proper young man ,and taught him how to make polite
Larkin will put up a fight with anyone that has offended her late husband. Too bad for Arthur Devlin, he was not let in on this knowledge. (289) “Like I said, your husband was a chimp in high school. You could have done better.’ Mrs. Larkin straightened up tall and proper, narrowed her eyes, and said, ‘Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.” Because of Devlin’s rude comments, Mrs. Larkin figured out how to buy the Widow Cane’s land for the town on page 284; “Due to Mr. Burton’s purchase of the spring, they now have the money to buy the rest of the Widow Cane’s property, with eight dollars to spare.” Mrs. Eudora Larkin defended the town just because Mr. Devlin said the wrong thing to